and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.
OJBAn eretz p'ri (fruitful land) into salt wasteland, because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
T4TSometimes he causes land that has produced lots of crops to become salty wastelands, with the result that they do not produce crops. He does that because the people who live there are very wicked.